Chief of feces-eating cult arrested after 11 dead bodies discovered throughout raid

Thai police raided the compound of a suspected cult chief in Chaiyaphum province on Sunday, discovering no less than 11 our bodies throughout the search. Local authorities were in a position to raid the compound after the group allegedly violated land encroachment legal guidelines and broke Covid-19 restriction legal guidelines.

Legislation enforcement had already been made aware of the group after allegations had been shared that the community had been consuming the bodily fluids of its chief. After police made their means onto the camp grounds, police then found the remains of 11 our bodies in coffins.

Nonetheless, the group was solely able to present demise certificates belonging to five of the 11 of the deceased. Police have ordered autopsies to be carried out to determine the causes of dying of the bodies.

The suspected chief of the group has been detained for questioning, however before the arrest many of his followers tried to cease police from arresting the elderly man through the raid. 

The strange group was recognized within the area to conduct themselves in a religious-like manner, where devotees of the “father,” Thawee Nanra, 75, would do almost anything for the man. Some say he would force his followers to drink his urine, eat his feces, and eat filth in an effort to heal physical diseases.

Cult-like teams will not be uncommon in Thailand. In 2019, a ‘rape cult’ on Koh Phangan was revelaed the place feminine college students say they have been promised non secular apply solely to be coerced into sex or raped by its founder. Last year, an aged monk decapitated himself with a selfmade machine in an attempt to reincarnate as a better being. His followers helped him build the contraption and helped him commit suicide. Extra extensively known is the Dhammakaya group, a massively wealthy Buddhist sect that critics and former followers name a cult.

The incident has quickly gone viral on social media, with netizens sharing their disgust towards the cult’s practices of consuming human waste. The Thai-language hashtag #พระบิดา (#Father) noticed over 141,000 mentions as of Monday’s afternoon.

A snippet from tv reveals a girl, who seems to be a member of the cult, saying that she didn't detect any disagreeable odor whereas consuming the human waste.  

“There isn’t even an odor,” the girl remarked. “Solely those with a tainted thoughts could odor it.”

"ไม่มีกลิ่นหรอกค่ะ มีแต่คนจิตไม่ดีเท่านั้นเเหละค่ะที่จะได้กลิ่น"
กูหลุดขำกับคำพูดนี้มาก ยายแกคิดได้ไง5555555555555555#พระบิดา pic.twitter.com/rNOaZJBLxq

One twitter person identified that the one who exposed this cult was Mor Pla, a celebrity volunteer who has helped uncover suspicious spiritual cases, slightly than local authorities. 

“It was imagined to be the police that raided this cult in the first place, isn’t it?,” one Twitter user questioned.

ที่งงคือทำไมถึงต้องเป็นหมอปลาที่เป็นคนประสานหรือนำสังคมไปเจอเรื่องอะไรแบบนี้ ทั้งที่คนที่ควรจะเป็นบุกไปจับ ไปเจอ หรือเปิดเผยมันควรเป็น ตร. หรือ จนท. ของรัฐ ไม่ใช่หรอ ทำไมถึงปล่อยให้มีเรื่องขนาดนี้เกิดขึ้น สุดจริงบ้านนี้เมืองนี้ #พระบิดา

Several tweets describe what happened as a failure of Thailand’s schooling system, notably within the area of hygiene. “I can’t bear the thought of more than half of the country being like this,” one other Twitter person wrote.
Thai Enquirer attempted to achieve native police in Chaiyaphum for comment, but they didn't reply by the point of publishing.

Authorities are still searching the group’s compound for different suspicious materials. This is an ongoing story and we may have more details in the coming days.